China Cruise Ship Disaster

China suffered one of the worst maritime disasters in its recent history this week when a cruise ship with more than 400 people aboard capsized in the Yangtze river.

China cruise ship disaster. The Chinese authorities put the death toll from the Yangtze River cruise ship disaster at 396 as emergency workers continue to search the vessel. On the night of 1 June 2015 the ship was traveling on the Yangtze River when it capsized during a thunderstorm in Jianli Hubei Province with 454 people on board. The passengers were mostly in their 60s and 70s and mostly from Nanjing where.

On 13 June 442 deaths were confirmed with 12 survivors. Disaster on Chinese river as cruise ship flips over. A survivor C-green top is rescued by divers from the Dongfangzhixing or Eastern Star vessel which sank in the Yangtze river.

The vessel was carrying 405 passengers 5 travel agents and 48. That sinking killed 282 people. A total of 77 people have been confirmed dead since the cruiseliner sank in Hubei provinces Jianli county but hundreds more are still missing and fears are mounting this could turn into Chinas.

Just offshore lay the upended shell of the Eastern Star a luxury cruise ship that was carrying 458 people including dozens of elderly tourists and a three-year-old boy when it capsized and sank. The four-deck Eastern Star was on its way from the city of Nanjing to the city of Chongqing on Monday night when it encountered a severe storm and overturned. Hundreds Killed After China Cruise Ship Disaster.

Chinas deadliest passenger ship disaster in recent memory is believed to be the capsizing of the ferry Dashun off the coast of eastern Shandong province in 1999. The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze river jumped to 396 on Saturday. MV Dongfang zhi Xing was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China.

Rescuers were able to save dozens of passengers after a severe storm capsized a cruise ship in China. Chinas deadliest maritime disaster in recent decades was the Dashun ferry which caught fire and capsized off Shandong province in November 1999 killing about 280 people. China cruise ship disaster.